what's the matter

English

Pronunciation

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Phrase

what's the matter?

1. (idiomatic) What is wrong? What's the problem?

   Why are you crying? What's the matter?

   What's the matter with you? Why would you do a thing like that?

2. (dated) What's happening? What's the news?

Synonyms

• (what's wrong):
• s'matter

Translations

what's wrong?

• Arabic: مَاذَا حَدَثَ؟ (māḏā ḥadaṯa?), مَا الْخَطْب؟ (mā l-ḵaṭb?), مَا الْأَمْر؟ (mā l-ʔamr?)

  Hijazi Arabic: إيش فيه؟ (ʔēš fī?), إيش صار؟ (ʔēš ṣār?)

• Cebuano: unsay problema?
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 啥物代誌？ / 啥物代志？ (siáⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-mih tāi-chì? / siám-mih tāi-chì? / sáⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siám-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-mí tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-meh tāi-chì? / sahⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 什物代誌？ / 什物代志？ (sím-mi̍h tāi-chì? / sím-mi tāi-chì? / sím-mih tāi-chì? / sīm-mi̍h tāi-chì? / sám-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 何物代誌？ / 何物代志？ (há-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 啥代？ (siáⁿ-tāi?)

  Mandarin: 什麼事？ / 什么事？ (shénme shì?)

• Danish: hvad sker der
• Dutch: wat is er aan de hand?
• Finnish: mikä hätänä, mistä on kysymys
• French: qu’est-ce qui se passe?, qu’est-ce qu’il y a?
• Galician: que pasa?
• German: was ist los?, was is passiert?
• Greek:

  Ancient: τί τὸ κακόν; (tí tò kakón?)

• Hindi: क्या बात है? (kyā bāt hai?)
• Hungarian: mi a baj?, mi történt?
• Icelandic: hvað er að?, hvað amar að?
• Indonesian: apa masalahnya?
• Japanese: どうしたんですか (dō shita n desu ka?)
• Korean: 무슨 일 있습니까? (museun il itseumnikka?), 무슨 일이야? (museun iriya?)
• Latin: quid tibi est?, quid est?
• Macedonian: што е? (što e?)
• Malay: apa masalahnya?
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hva er i veien?

  Nynorsk: kva er i vegen?

• Ojibwe: aaniin dina?
• Polish: co się stało? (literally "what happened?"), w czym problem?
• Portuguese: o que é que se passa?, o que é que foi?, o que é que tem?, qual é o problema?
• Russian: в чём де́ло? (v čom délo?), что случи́лось? (što slučílosʹ?), что тако́е? (ru) (što takóje?)
• Serbo-Croatian: što je bilo?, što se dogodilo?
• Spanish: (informal) ¿qué te pasa?, (formal) ¿qué le pasa a usted?
• Tagalog: ano'ng problema?
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sorun nedir?
• Urdu: کیا بات ہے؟ (kyā bāt hai?)
• Welsh: beth sy'n bod?, beth sydd o'i le?
• Yagara: menango